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The law of supply and demand is a fairly simple concept: Increasing supply in relation to demand will usually cause prices to fall.<\/p>\n
Anyone who understands this basic economic law shouldn’t be surprised that the unlocking of tokens \u2014 roughly equivalent to 114% of optimism<\/a>‘s previous circulating supply of its OP<\/a> Token \u2014 correlated with a steady decline of nearly 50% in the token’s value over recent weeks. <\/p>\n Despite this market negativity, the convergence of a number of developments that are building on the OP stack signals a positive outlook for the ambitious Ethereum. layer-2<\/a> solution.<\/p>\n The “giant unlock” of supply caused Optimism’s OP token to “dump roughly 17% over the past few days,” says Ryan West, a Blockworks Research<\/a> analyst 0xResearch podcast<\/a>,<\/p>\n And it’s only the beginning, he says, with the token continuing to unlock half a percent of the total supply every month until sometime in 2027.<\/p>\n It was a “pretty bad trading week for OP,” he observes.<\/p>\n The analyst wonders if a number of upcoming events such as the impending Bedrock upgrade, which enables Ethereum to \u201ceventually become a Superchain<\/a>Will be enough to maintain positivity. <\/p>\n “Is this enough to cause a bounce after the unlock,” West asks, “or will the overhangs over time also be a little too much, as liquidity is pretty dry at the moment?”<\/p>\n \n